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Catherine Thompson

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Catherine Thompson is a senior editor for Talking Points Memo in New York City. She came to the site in 2013 and reported on national affairs. Previously, she worked as a research assistant to investigative reporter Wayne Barrett. She can be reached at catherine@talkingpointsmemo.com.

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The anti-Islam sentiment that has crept into the mainstream political dialogue in recent weeks may hit a boiling point this weekend, as planned protests outside mosques and Islamic centers across the nation coincide with the commemoration of the 20th anniversary of the Million Man March in Washington, D.C.

A Republican congressman from North Carolina paid severance to a top aide for three months after the staffer left his post in May, despite reported complaints of sexual harassment against that staffer dating back to March.

A Republican state official in Alabama has come under firein recent weeks for speaking to a neo-Confederate group about his efforts to return portraits of segregationist former Govs. George and Lurleen Wallace to the state Capitol rotunda.

But in a Tuesday phone interview with TPM, state Auditor Jim Zeigler (R) flatly dismissed criticism of the neo-Confederate League of the South as a hate group—and said he'd be happy to speak before the group again.

"There was no hate in that meeting except for one thing," Zeigler told TPM. "They hated it when the fried chicken ran out."

After a gunman killed nine people Thursday at Oregon's Umpqua Community College, conservatives adopted an idea that was previously the territory of gun control activists: not naming the perpetrators of mass shootings.

The mother of the 26-year-old man who massacred nine people Thursday at Oregon's Umpqua Community College reportedly bragged in the past about the stash of weapons she was stockpiling in anticipation of stricter gun laws.

The pro-gun sheriff in charge of investigating a mass shooting at Oregon's Umpqua Community College said Friday that he doesn't subscribe to the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting "truther" movement, despite having posted a video raising questions about the tragedy to his Facebook page.